Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Hello Paul,
I implement a solution that checks which program is associated to the
.pdf file extension. Could you please thest if this installer finds
Adobe Reader on your computer:
http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/Installer/lyx_setup_136proposal-v15-2.exe
thanks in advance and regards
Uwe
Hi, Uwe,
The installer listed the correct directory on the screen with all the
helper applications detected. In the "Software summary" dialog, where
it lists the paths it will set as defaults, it runs the paths for
Acrobat and Python together. This appears to be just cosmetic (a missed
newline).
After installation, acrord32 is listed as the viewer for all PDF file
types. However, the "path prefix" entry in Edit | Preferences | Paths
is a bit odd. What I see is:
C:\Program
Files\LyX\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\Python23;C:\TeX\MiKTeX\miktex\bin;C:\gs\gs8.13\bin;C:\Program
Files\ImageMagick-6.0.3-Q16;C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat
7.0\Reader;F:\LyXTest\bin;F:\miktex\miktex\bin;f:\freeware\ghostscript\gs\gs8.51\bin;F:\Freeware\ImageMagic
The first half (through Acrobat Reader) are fine, but I don't have an F:
drive on my laptop (I take it you do?), so they are all wrong.
I loaded a document containing JPG images and exported it successfully
to DVI, from which I infer that ImageMagick is being found (on my C:
drive), the errant path prefix notwithstanding. "Successful" here means
that yap could view the entire file, including the images. However,
when I try to View | DVI, something goes wrong. LyX runs yap, which
loads the DVI file and displays the first page; but when I try to scroll
to the second page (where the first graphic appears), I get an MSVC++
runtime error saying that yap asked to terminate "in an unusual way".
I looked in the temporary buffer directory. The .tex file refers to
images as "C:/.../obnoxiously_long_filename".eps (note that the
extension is .eps and that it is outside the quotation marks -- not sure
if the latter is an issue. The graphics files in the temp directory are
all .jpg files, no .eps in sight.
-- Paul
